Stop hating on Gears. You don't like it? Don't play it. You think its rediculous they put a map pack out for 800 points when they havent "fixed" the game yet? Don't buy the maps.
That being said, I have a blast playing Gears 2 and I try to play it every night. The new maps are amazing, especially Fuel Station.
Yes you can call me a Gears fanboy. That is one thing I am not ashamed of, but please don't say im defending the game just soley based on that. Im doing it becuase a lot of people want to be pissed at Epic but your hatred is misplaced.
A patch is coming, Epic already confirmed this, here is a qoute from Mark Rein the VP of Epic:
Unattributed Quote:
Just relax folks. We are going to make improvements to the multiple aspects of the multiplayer portion of the game over time. I'm confident that many of the things that concern you will be addressed. There is no point us getting down in the weeds with complex explanations (that are over my head anyway) because often it is a series of minor things that fix major issues you might be having. Regardless of what specific development techniques we use there are likely some bugs that have to be squashed as well to make those techniques work the way you expect. Just chill folks, we're on the job!
Last thing I'll say is that patching takes time, the majority of that time is the certification process the patch must go through at Microsoft.
Here's an Example:
Smoke Grenades have too much of a shock, so what are we going to do?
Hmm, lets open up the code and change all of this code to get it to act differently. Alright now lets run it again...
Nope. Thats too weak.....lets edit it again and play test through......
Opps, now that caused another problem, now we have to fix that...
Ok, so now we have to go fix all the other bugs...the same exact way...over and over...
And now we have to wait a up to a total of two weeks for our patch to be confirmed through microsoft
Basically what im trying to say is, there is obviously a lot of things that need to be fixed/tweaked, give it some time, play another game, and most of all stop complaining because thats not helping as much as you think it is.